[See all of the Tsunami videos in the Tsunami Video archive.]
Hellmut Issels’ Phuket Island Photo Gallery, featuring a larger version of the thumbnail picture above.
All of the videos that Wizbang has linked to, as well as a new one from Sri Lanka are available from the links below:
Sri Lanka (7MB)
Sri Lanka Resort (6.5MB)
Phuket (12MB)
Patong Beach (11MB)
Koh Lanta, Thailand (11MB)
Many people are mirroring these videos – finally. Archive.org has all of the videos above and more. Jordan Golson’s collection of mirrors is the most complete listing available. PlanetBangkok has all three videos as well as more.
Bonus Picture: Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova, who appeared on the cover of 2003 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, who was injured in the tsunami. She is said to have clung to a tree for eight hours above the swirling water, even though she suffered from a shattered hip and internal injuries.
Related Wizbang Tsunami Video Entries:
juste launch a tsunami news center in french. Need translaters.
email the link: http://www.tsunamiasie.com to people who can translate from french or to french language
post your news or preferred links on the tsunami, we’ll post on our blog…
thanks! :o)
Reading this fills me with grief for the western world. Such callous and un-informed ignorant comments. 100+ K people are dead. Most have nothing to do with hating the west or the USA for that matter. They are jus regular poor people who try to live their lives.
So “can’t swim” / “why help” easy to say in your cosy ignorance. I would like to see those people suff half as much as this and see them quiver in fear.
Ignorance kills
Can you not track the IP’s of the Americans who have written the disgusting comments during this blog thread. I am sure that if you report them to them to their ISP’s (you can get that info from http://www.samspade.org), with their messages, then there would be good grounds for further action. They are filth, who make Osama seem like a nice guy in comparison.
If you ever lived in a tourist area you probably grew to dislike em,,,, but these tourists take the cake. Apparently they got bored and managed to ignore what was happening, so the town put up a sign which they promptly ignored. Hey I know you just lost everything in your lives, but this vacation sucks—- now get me a damn pina-colada. Unbelievableeeee !!!!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/ts/122604indonesiaquake&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=0&l=1&e=6&t=&prev=7
Oops, they added pics so the addy is now wrong, but if you scroll through you’ll see what I’m talking about. Folks hangin on the beach behind a sign saying due to the disaster the public areas are off limits.
Last comment— I didnt read the prior comments till just now. I’m American and proud of it, fact is all countries have insensitive idiots and we have more than our share. This is a human tragedy which we all share. Ignore the idiots, you cant fix em.
Racism is not dead. The Internet can be a transforming medium or it can be ground zero for hate and intolerance. There must be a lot of people at this site that hate themselves and seek to spread that hate to others. For everyone that has made a hateful comment to what is clearly an horrific event, I say please get some counseling. Such reactions are simply abnormal.
And for all those who made such comments and dare to call themselves Christians. Please understand that you are a disgrace to the cause of Christ.
Comments like some of the ones above are either demonstrating total ignorance (in the true sense of the word) or unbelievable callousness!
No wonder the rest of the World has little love for the English speaking contingent, especially North America.
I would just love to see some of these guys dropped into some real white-water with no life-jacket or protective clothing and see just how well they can swim.
I would like to apologise to all the survivors of the Tsunami disaster on behalf of the folks here who know better and ask them to ignore the idiots!!